Waterfall Gardens Retirement Village
38 Yellowwood Drive, Waterfall, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Waterfall Gardens Retirement Village is a village of free-standing cottages in Waterfall, KwaZulu-Natal, built in a number of styles in three unit types (Cape Dutch, Tudor and Constantia). According to the home's website, it covers 14 hectares and has 150 houses. Cottages generally operate on a buy-and-sell basis under a Lifetime-Use Agreement, under which the buyer and spouse may occupy the unit for the rest of their lives; viewings are by appointment and applicants are placed on a waiting list. A Community Centre is the hub of the village's social activities and has a dining room serving midday meals. A Personal Care Centre offers nursing care for recuperating patients and for people no longer able to care for themselves in their own homes. It takes a maximum of 15 people in single or double rooms and is staffed 24 hours a day by qualified nursing sisters or staff nurses and certificated care givers.
Pricing
Life-use cottages (Lifetime-Use Agreement, bought and bought back at the original price less a deduction): Type A (small, usually one bedroom) from R1,250,000, monthly levy R2,570.45; Type B (medium, usually two bedrooms) from R1,600,000, monthly levy R3,237.71; Type C (large, two-bedroom stilt house) from R1,750,000, monthly levy R4,151.34. Municipal rates are extra, from R450, R870 and R980 a month respectively, and levies include building insurance and external maintenance (listed on the home's website without a date, read 3 November 2026).
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- Personal Care Centre with nursing by registered professional nurses (dressings, medication, blood pressure monitoring)
- Short to medium term hospital step-down and post-operative recuperative care
- Frail care for people who can no longer live on their own in a cottage
- Weekly clinic by local doctors in the Personal Care Centre
- Panic button for every village resident
- Minor medical care for villagers (sugar, urine and blood pressure tests, stitch removals) for a nominal fee
- Mid-day meals in the community centre dining room, with take-away available
- Weekly village car trip on Tuesday mornings
Amenities
- Community centre with dining room
- Library of about 2500 books
- Swimming pool (not heated)
- Hairdresser
- 24 hour patrolled security
- Bingo, darts, croquet, bridge and a monthly braai
- Pets: one small dog allowed per resident, with approval
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